[postgis-users] Updated Cygwin PostGIS Installer

Steffen Macke sdteffen at web.de
Thu Oct 23 03:44:03 PDT 2003


Hello All,

an updated version of the Cygwin PostGIS installer is available from

http://dcmms.sourceforge.net/postgis_installer.php

The new version, 0.7.5-13 features a new service, "postmaster_init"
that runs ipcclean and deletes postmaster.pid when the database wasn't
properly shut down (e.g. the power supply was cut). The postmaster
service depends on postmaster_init.

Brief update instructions (from installer version 0.7.5-12):

* Back up data
* Stop postmaster
* In Cygwin, run

cygrunsrv --remove postmaster
ipc-daemon2 --remove-service

* Run the installer

* Restore data

Steffen




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